Meet the Author

My mission with Clarkwoods is to tell relatable, candid stories about a diverse cast of oddballs, outcasts, and ordinaries. I'm passionate about creating an inclusive readership by:

listening more than I speak,

by reading diverse voices, and

by working every day to expand my mind beyond its pre-conceived notions and prejudices.

I write about weird people living in weird worlds because I believe that readers who walk away from a book feeling less alone in their oddness and more aware that those around them are equally as odd, just in different ways, will lead to better, more interesting world.

Who Am I?

This is me, in third person:

E. Christopher Clark writes to entertain a diverse audience of saucy oddballs hungry to read about characters and stories as distinct as they are. He is the author of Missing Mr. Wingfield, The Seven Wives of Silver, and Bad Poetry Night. His writing has also been published in Live Free or Ride: Tales of the Concord Coach and River Muse: Tales of Lowell & The Merrimack Valley.

Education

Teaching Experience at Lesley University

Senior Lecturer, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2007 to Present

Created and taught course content for sections of “Advanced Short Fiction Seminar,” “Genre Fiction Seminar,” “Art and Craft of Short Fiction,” “Creative Writing and Magazine Production,” “Introduction to Creative Writing,” “Writing and the Literary Arts,” “Field Work and Seminar in the Humanities,” and “English Composition.”

Developed the “Advanced Short Fiction Seminar” and “Genre Fiction Seminar” courses from scratch and revised them based on feedback from the curriculum committee.

Supervised fiction writers and poets as the faculty reader of their capstone manuscripts during Senior Seminar in Creative Writing.

Supervised fiction writers, poets, and playwrights in both individual and group independent studies on subjects including linked short fiction, genre writing, manuscript development, and screenwriting.

Organized the editorial development, production, and release of six annual issues of Lesley’s Commonthought literary magazine.

Organized annual readings to commemorate the release of Commonthought.

Developed online versions of the courses “Introduction to Creative Writing,” “Art and Craft of Short Fiction,” and “Advanced Short Fiction Seminar,” refocusing course content previously used in the classroom setting for Web delivery.

Guest Speaker, MFA in Creative Writing Program, 2008 to Present

Sat on the “Fourth Semester Pedagogy Panel” at residencies in the summers of 2010 and 2012-2015, and at residencies in the winters of 2013-2017.